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Great little number mine I’ve found here.

I’ve noticed that, as the years have gone by, my posts have become longer. Looking back to the early days of the blog, many posts are two or three hundred words, a few maybe five hundred. Nowadays I feel guilty when I dish up fewer than 600 words.

Where’s this going? You should be able to guess. Not too many words this time. But a fair few numbers to make up.

It’s all about beer output per worker:


“Table IV shows the volume of beer produced per person employed in the different EEC countries in the years of 1967 and 1974. During these seven years the Irish brewers have been the most progressive with an increase from 890 hl up to 1,325 hl, but the highest productivity is in France with 1,447 hl, followed by the Netherlands with 1,403 hl per person employed. In West Germany with our numerous breweries we produce 1,037 hl per production employee, a little more than in Great Britain where one employed person is producing 927 hl. The reason for this low output is Great Britain's problem for the future and may be found in the very traditional production system in some plants.”
Journal of the Institute of Brewing, Volume 83, Issue 1, March-April 1977, page 72.
Here’s the table:



TABLE IV. Beer Production in hl per annum per person employed in the Breweries or the EEC.


Country
1967
1974


Denmark
635
831


Eire
890
1,325


Great Britain
560
927


Italy
788
-


Netherlands
1,012
1,403


Luxemburg
677
1,056


Belgium
627
800


France
1,032
1,447


West Germany
794
1,037


Total
719
1,060



You can probably guess where this is going. We’ll have a look at today:



Output per employee in 2012


Country
employed
output (1,000 hl)
output per employee


Denmark
3,500
6,080
1,737


Ireland
1,500
8,195
5,463


United Kingdom
13,500
42,047
3,115


Italy
4,700
13,293
2,828


Netherlands
6,300
24,271
3,853


Luxembourg
130
292
2,246


Belgium
4,500
18,751
4,167


France
3,900
17,132
4,393


Germany
26,900
94,618
3,517


Total/average
64,930
224,679
3,460


Source:


Beer Statistics 2014 edition, Brewers of Europe, 2014, pages 11 and 27.



Looks like productivity has shot up. Let’s do that nailing and comparing thing.



Output per employee in 1974 - 2012


Country
1974
2014
% change


Denmark
831
1,737
109.04%


Ireland
1,325
5,463
312.33%


United Kingdom
927
3,115
235.99%


Italy
-
2,828



Netherlands
1,403
3,853
174.59%


Luxembourg
1,056
2,246
112.70%


Belgium
800
4,167
420.86%


France
1,447
4,393
203.58%


Germany
1,037
3,517
239.19%


Total/average
1,060
3,460
226.45%


Source:


Journal of the Institute of Brewing, Volume 83, Issue 1, March-April 1977, page 73.


Beer Statistics 2014 edition, Brewers of Europe, 2014, pages 11 and 27.



Isn’t that interesting. Productivity seems to have shot up. At the same time as the number of breweries has explodes and output per brewhouse collapsed.

What a weird and wacky world we live in.

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